The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-30
TIE CRADLE MUST GO.
What Furniture Man Says of Babies
That Are Rocked.
From. the Macon Ca Telegraph.

| From the Macon Ca Telegraph
A young father entered one of the fruni-
ture stores in the city yesterday, and asked
to see cradle. While one member of the
firm went off to wait on the customer, the
other member said to the Telegraph: 'Do
you know that it will not be long before
cradles VIII not be kept in stock at all?'
The Telegraph had not kept up with the
times IN this particular, and asked the rea-
son.
The cradle is fast getting to be thing
OF the past, relic of baby by-gone days, as
it were. Physicians have discovered that
the constant rocking of baby in a cradle
adde's the brain, and to this is attributed
the weakminded Of this and preceding gen
eratlons. The minds of the children are af-
fected, because of the rocking motion, and
they grow up either idiots or cranks. You
now see why there are more cranks than
ever before in the worlds history. Then
there is another reason why the cradle
should go. Look around over the house
holds OF the country and see the weak, sick
~ mothers. This comes of rocking the
cradle. 1t has been clearly demonstrated
mat running sewing machine is not near
50 laoorious or injurious to the women of
TINS country as rocking cradle"
now are the born journalists and prob
able Presidents to be coaxed to cease squall-
ing and put to sleepf'
The straight bed takes the place of the
cradle. Rocking doesn't stop child from
ss9uailing, neither does it put it to sleep.
that's delusion mothers have been hug
glng 10 their boSoms for years, even centu-
RES. Babies sleep more than grown people,
and II they don't sleep they are sick. A
well and hearty babe can be laid down upon
a couch as hard as a boarding house bed,
and, if sleepy, will drop right off to sleep,
without any rocking whatever How many
tunes have you seen mothers rock baby
Tor an hour or longer, and yet hear the
child squall nearly all that time! 1t would
not have squalled near so long if laid COM
fortably upon rockerless bed, and the poor
mother would not have been tired out push.
ing cradle to and fro
Then the cradle must go, you thinkn
"Yes, and with it all those baby-scaring
songs no more will be heard, Baby Nine
'Baby's Got TOOTH" and all those songs
which accompany the rocking of the cradle.
4ou Will never hear again:
Yocker bye baby inner tee top.
Whenner win bows cadle iii yock,
Whenner bough bakes, cadle ill fall,
Down'll tum baby, cadie an all
because all such songs keep baby awake,
instead of putting it to sleep"
Then you would blot out the sweet pic
ture of the fond mother bending over the
cradle containing her first born, softly
grooming or singing her tender lullaby, as
she watches the little smiles and unconscious
laughs chase the ripples over the beautiful
dimples you would tear away the drapery
that hangs over the little cradle, and the
silk quilts upon which the mothers fingers
have worked for so long, and you would do
all this for a doctors opinionl"
mo, no, my boy, not for a doctors opin-
ion, but, you see, there is no money in era
dies. See that elegant antique oak crib
there! We make more profit on that one
crib than we would on dozen cradles"